HBO Exec Says Garry Shandling Showed Artists the Way
In the wake of HBO’s 10th-year-in-a-row dominance of the Primetime Emmy Awards, Financial Times columnist Peter Aspden has put together an erudite reminder of what we all owe the TV network that is “not TV.”
Aspden got to sit down in New York with HBO co-president Richard Plepler. When he asked the perfect question of when executive realized his network was attempting something different than the then-primetime norm, Plepler gave this full-credit reply:
He points to an unlikely harbinger: The Larry Sanders Show.
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